The 'Spanish Flu' pandemic of 191-19 Lecture 2

Lecturer: In the midst of World War One the world was struck by the worst pandemic in modern history, the so-called ‘Spanish’ flu, which killed some 50 million people around the globe in under a year, i.e. 2–3% of the Earth’s population. This course of five lectures, given by one historian and two virologists, will examine the catastrophe through both an international and a South African lens, focusing on the pandemic’s origin, its transmission, its dire immediate effect and its long-term consequences. The last lecture will look at epidemic influenza outbreaks since 1918 up until today and consider whether another such influenza-driven disaster is in prospect.

[johanlamprecht]

Really interesting lectures. My grandmother used to talk about how they left food by farm gates for sick people. Too scared to go in

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